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Programs aimed at helping Iraq and Afghanistan veterans find jobs may be paying
off, as the federal government reported a dramatic drop in the February unemployment
rate for people who separated from the service since 2001.

While the nation's overall unemployment rate remained static at 8.3 percent, the
jobless rate for Iraq and Afghanistan-era veterans fell in February to 7.6 percent,
down from 9.1 percent in January and 12.5 percent in February 2011.

The drop is so fast and so dramatic that it could be a statistical anomaly because
veterans make up such a small part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment
survey.

One reason to suspect a statistical blip is that the unemployment rate for female
veterans separated from the service since 2011 has been in the double digits for
several months, more than twice the jobless rate for men of the same generation.
In the February report, the jobless rate for recent female veterans fell from 17.3
percent in January to 7.4 percent in February, putting the women's rate slightly
below the rate for men.

For veterans of all generations, the February unemployment rate was 7 percent, down
from 7.5 percent in January.

Federal, state and local governments, and private industry have undertaken broad
efforts to help separating service members find jobs, and more ideas appear every
day.

Last week, Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., an Air Force veteran who served during the
1991 Gulf War, introduced a bill aimed at using federal authority over licensing
to help more veterans get jobs. His Veterans Skills to Jobs Act, HR 4155, would
require federal agencies to treat relevant military training as the equivalent of
federal licensing and certification requirement, which he believes would put more
veterans to work faster.

Denham's bill would help in fields that require federally issued occupational licenses,
including aerospace, communications and maritime jobs.

In a statement, Denham said the federal government "should be an example to the
states that are looking for ways to improve veteran transitions."

"America is blessed with the strongest, most capable and professional military in
the world," he said. "Unfortunately, even though many of our veterans have the training
to perform a wide variety of occupations, the private sector and even other departments
of the federal government do not recognize this training."